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Hayley Schiete Feb 2015
A thousand ellipsis on paper,
a hundred more pauses.

Irony is when you can write
brilliant stories
on how you feel,
what you'll do,
or where you'll go,

but still stutter explaining the simplest sentence.


There's blood on my hand,
from how hard I hit the paper,
splattering metaphors hoping to find
evidence that this is normal,
the fact I can't find the exact, blunt words,
in this crime scene,
of a ****** mystery I once wrote,
still stuttering,
trying to find the obvious killer.
Hayley Schiete Jan 2015
I get so overbearingly affectionate
A sweetheart with a poisonous twist
Considerate, but passing the considerate amount
I'm sorry if I'm overwhelming
With a feeling of fear and lust
It almost crushes me as much as I have a crush on you
Hayley Schiete Dec 2014
These multiple perspectives never expanded my view,
but only made me lose sight of myself.

What I stood for disappeared when I lost myself in you
and no,
it's not your fault,
completely.

I gave myself away when you only wanted small pieces hand fed,
and only if you said please.

So I'm sorry that I stuffed my love in a person who became unprepared.

My eyes were bigger than the weight on your shoulders.
Hayley Schiete Dec 2014
So who's to blame in these shambles?
A love so currently old the nostalgic value is priceless
Something I can't loosen my grip on for the sake of the selfishness in my heart
Trying to keep you stolen

So who's to blame in this disarray?
A friendship so foreign its roots cannot be traced to the source
Only a sapling just beginning to grow
Something I can't grasp upon for the sake of a charm
Trying to keep up together
Hayley Schiete Nov 2014
Tuesday night I wonder what it's like to not care and throw myself out into the water
Plunging deep into a sea of isolation
Being too dark to swim back


3 hours later I wonder what it's like to not cry and drag my feet out into the desert
Laying still in a land of misinterpretations
Being too hot to crawl away


8 hours later I wonder what it's like to be happy with what I have and float out into the sky
Flying high in a cloud of regretful communications
Being too spaced to come back down


Wednesday morning I wonder what it's like to not have spurs of violent, ugly thoughts and say good morning to you
Hating every second I doubted
Being too sad to think through
long time no see
Hayley Schiete Aug 2014
stuck in the troubled position of deserving you and deserving to be alone

i often placed my head on my pillow as it whispered reassurance for the hope i'll always have into my left ear
and i often sacrifice a full night's sleep for a continuous daydream of you

but that was before i realized that we were built out of paper patience and cardboard perseverance
it only took a liter of lies and a spark of convincing
that burnt us to the creaky floor of something i knew was going to happen
but never wanted it to
our love was the catalyst for brokenness after all


i just never thought it would be something we said would never do

said i would never do

that did just that
Hayley Schiete Aug 2014
i wanna like, you know
kiss you so hard we can't tell which set of lips is whose

i hope you don't mind, but
you make the wax drip down my body and harden at my feet
you make me stand when i am weak
and you'll forever be the fire that helps me go

i mean, like
there's more secrets to be shown about you and me
and more whispers to be heard

so to be honest,
i'm all ears for every sentence, phrase, word, breath you want to speak

because, i'm really, i guess
deep in love

and like
i try to explain how much i do

but really,
i add unnecessary words because i am at lost for how much you mean to me

so basically like,
you're my everything


honestly
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